Chapter 22
Doflamingo opened the door and allowed the girl to enter first, the room was still dark and Law was fast asleep on the couch. Doflamingo had gotten his hours of sleep and even then Law was still fast asleep, the poor thing.
Fufufu, always tuckering himself out.
He lightly pushed to girl forward, grinning sharply. "Remember, you were just isolated, you've been fed, watered and no harm came to you."
"Of course Young Master." She chirped pleasantly.
"Good girl, now go wake your brother up. It should be a nice surprise after last night's one." Doflamingo grinned, watching the girl nod and make her way over to the sleeping pile tucked away under the blanket still.
Limie gently shook Law's arm, earning a soft grumble as Law turned over, trying to swat the offending arm away. Doflamingo watched Limie smile fondly and shake her brother's arm again, murmuring for him to wake up.
At hearing her voice Law must have come to his senses because he turned back over, blinking sharply while Doflamingo lifted Law's legs, sitting down on the couch and then letting them rest on his lap.
"Lami?" Law blinked, looking startled but Limie merely smiled.
"Hey Law, have a nice sleep?" She asked but much to his faint surprise Law leaned over and hugged her, slipping his feet off his lap as he kneeled on the couch.
"Are you okay?" He asked, Doflamingo raised an eyebrow pointedly at her earning a nod.
"Of course I am Law, please, you shouldn't have worked yourself up into such a state. You look terrible." Limie frowned. "And that's coming from me, I only just had a bath last night."
"Fufufu, I told you Law, she was perfectly safe, I just kept her isolated."
"You were fed, given plenty of water?"
"Of course Law." Limie smiled softly. "You fret too much, please stop. You'll only exhaust yourself."
"You're my sister, of course I worry when you get arrested and then locked up." Law scowled over at him but Limie carefully drew his attention back.
"I shouldn't have tried to runaway, I wasn't thinking clearly and the rush just got to me. Sorry Law."
"You have nothing to be sorry for Lami, I should be the one who-"
"Hush Law, please. Let me speak?"
Doflamingo watched the girl wrap Law around her finger, beginning to console him and lie to him into a comfortable state of mind again. That was the only useful thing the girl could do, have her brother completely wrapped around her finger and make him believe anything she says with just a dazzle of her eyes and a few consoling words, filled with emotion.
He never bothered to help Law see past his sister's manipulation, for now it was useful and Doflamingo didn't have a way to turn it around into his favour yet if he revealed it. No, right now it was good to keep Law settled.
Ace frowned softly, he had awoken ages ago and found himself strapped firmly to his bed, he had no idea why. He barely remembered a thing, did he fall asleep during their meeting? Or did Marco knock him out because he was 'sulking' too much?
He heard the bedroom door unlock as a familiar blonde stepped into the room, tilting his head at him as Ace tried to sit up, looking relieved.
"Marco! Untie me already would you? I really need to pee!" Ace begged, desperate. "I'll stop 'sulking' just let me go to the bathroom dammit!"
"That depends, is this a trick or do you really need the toilet-yoi?"
"A trick?" Ace blinked but shook his head. "I don't know what's going on but I mean it, I really need to pee before I pee over the bed!"
"You really don't know what's going on?" Marco frowned at him.
"All I know is that I really need to bathroom, like now would be a very good time." Ace begged, literally squirming within the straps now and whimpering.
"Alright, alright but if this is a trick I'll tie you back down-yoi." Marco warned, throwing back the bed covers and began to cautiously untie him-
How many straps did he use dammit?!
Ace blinked, seeing his ankles, thighs, stomach, chest and wrists all belted down to his bed much to his astonishment, he must have really put up a struggle from whatever Marco was talking about. Ace stretched out once he was finally free, before finally rushing to the bathroom, needing to satisfy the call of his bladder.
He didn't see Marco watching him like a hawk as he closed the door.
"I have to go Marco! Let me go!" Ace squirmed against him as Marco shoved him into his bedroom, scowling at the younger man.
"I'm not letting you follow Teach. You'll thank me later for this." The blonde retorted, crossing his arms as he sat on the chair beside the door. "You should just be happy I've taken off your handcuffs-yoi."
"Too bad, would have been kinky." Ace sighed softly as he approached. "I'm not planning to do anything reckless Marco."
"Go to bed Ace, you'll feel better in the morning."
Ace grinned at him, it seemed like the hypnotism was starting to wear off, some don't last long so hopefully Laffitte's didn't either. "Would be better if you joined me."
Marco raised an eyebrow as Ace climbed on to his lap but braced him with his hands, ignoring Ace's soft kisses against his neck. "If you're trying to distract me it won't work. I'll tie you to your bed if you try run Ace."
"Kinky." Ace grinned, kissing the tip of his nose. "But I'm not planning anything bad."
"Sure." Marco hummed, not totally believing him yet, though allowed Ace to indulge in a kiss.
"I swear, stop being so suspicious. Besides you told those guards outside if I tried to leave my chambers they were to stop me."
"True." Marco murmured. "But you're manipulative-yoi."
Ace pouted at him. "I'm not."
"You very much are." Marco drawled but Ace caught him in another kiss, Marco steadied Ace when he moved, grinding their hips together gently.
It didn't take Marco very long though, he knew Ace's body like the back of his hand so while he kept his completely relaxed and lazy he could feel that Ace's was starting to go rigid and tense, as if he was planning to strike at any second-
Which he was, Ace was predictable when you knew all his signs.
So as soon as the kiss ended Marco had Ace off of him and his arm locked behind his back, forcing him to let go of his dagger which clampered to the floor while Ace hissed and struggled.
"Nice try babe, c'mon, let's get you to bed." Marco drawled, twisting Ace's arm up further as he pushed him forward towards his bed.
"Don't touch me!" Ace snarled, trying to kick him but Marco merely pushed his arm more, earning a whimper.
"You were the one kissing me a minute ago." Marco threw back the bed covers and heard Ace's inhale, seeing him look surprised. "What, you thought I left you with the others for kicks? I warned you I would tie you down to your bed if you tried escaping-yoi."
"I'll kill you and every last member of the Whitebeard company!" Ace seethed, his eyes burning but Marco merely rolled his, pushing Ace on to the bed.
Swiftly he was on top of him, already cuffing one of his hands in place, earning protests and struggles.
"If you can manage Ace, right now you seem to be having trouble though." Marco murmured, once satisfied Ace was tied down properly he stroked his cheek, leaning back to look over the straps. "Comfy?"
"Burn in hell."
"Maybe later, first I would like to see you chill out though." Marco mused, kissing the tip of Ace's nose, earning a wriggle.
"You're not a leader Marco. The only place you're going is to your grave, maybe we'll even be kind enough to put you beside Whitebeard." It was weird, hearing Ace call Pops by his title again and that old glare. "Face it, you're no leader Marco. Everyone will die and you won't be able to do anything to stop it."
Marco ignored the pain in his chest and merely rolled his eyes. "I leave you alone with Teach for five minutes and he's already turned you into a brainwashed zombie. Good to know."
"I wish I joined him sooner."
"Sure you do." Marco nodded mockingly, smirking as he slid off the bed. "Ill let you dream about it while I go get a drink, maybe the nightmares will freak you out and get you to snap out of it faster."
"Laugh all you like Phoenix. Whitebeard company is dead."
"That went well." The Young Master mused, Monet smiled at that as he circled around the desk, taking a seat on his chair. "She was such a good girl, weren't you Limie? Law completely calmed down, he's even went away to the medical suite."
"I am glad to have pleased you Young Master." Lami nodded her head, her eyes blank with a small smile on her face. "Is there anything else I can do for you?"
"Monet?"
Monet licked her lips before speaking up. "Of course Lami, we have had to up security in light of the recent attack on Lady Kaya and Prince Ace, including one of our staff members. So each Champion has now been assigned a personal servant to care for their health. We cannot have an outbreak of poisons considering some of our Champions know of such things."
"So we want you to take care of Eustass, the assassin Law has brought into the game and of course, make sure he is put out of the way." The Young Master grinned darkly. "You can gain his trust the easiest considering you're Law's little sister."
"Law will try and stop me if he catches on." Lami frowned softly but bowed her head. "Shall I attempt it anyway?"
"You have Law wrapped around your finger." Monet stated bluntly, narrowing her eyes. "If he gets suspicious you are to use your influence on him to keep him in the dark. Don't let him interfere."
"Once Eustass is taken care of we'll handle Law. He will need to be removed from the Games for a while and out of public eye." Young Master announced. "Otherwise he'll just cause a huge fuss."
"Remove Eustass and make sure Law doesn't interfere, anything else Young Master?" Lami asked softly but she was only dismissed and told to leave.
Once the door closed however Monet set her gaze back over to their King who was leaning back, grinning eerily. "Do you think she will do it?"
"Hopefully she will have learned." The Young Master chuckled. "If not then we just have to discipline her more harshly. We've been kind so far, after all there are many ways to break someone now isn't there? Fufufufufu."
She smiled at that. "Of course there is, it's just finding out how much they can take."
Once you did that, you merely had to mold them into whatever shape you wished.
"Hey Law." Sanji greeted as the darker haired man entered the room, Zoro was leaning against the wall again while Robin-chan occupied the chair, reading a book. "I hope you aren't here to guard me too, Robin-chan is fantastic to have here but the rest of you are losers."
"Stop whining shitty-cook, we're keeping an eye on you and Usopp until we can get rid of Blackbeard, until then get used to this."
"And what about the match tomorrow? The rest of you, apart from Chopper, have to go to the match and compete."
"That's while I'll be here with you little eggplant." Zeff grunted, Sanji scowled at the older man who glared at him back. "Don't bother getting snarky with me, I'll just ignore you."
"You sure Patty can handle running the place?" Sanji smirked at Zeff's scowl.
"He'll do a better job than you little eggplant."
"Like hell he would!" Sanji protested but stiffened when Law pushed him to lie back down.
"Zeff-ya will be watching over you while Chopper-ya will keep an eye on long-nose-ya." Law murmured. "You're still too weak to be wandering out of bed, you lost a lot of blood and you have an extremely rare blood type so you were lucky we had a supply for you just in case."
"How rare exactly?" Sanji raised an eyebrow.
"We believe you're the only one in the castle with it." Law shrugged. "Not that we have everyone's blood type listed but for now it does seem to just be you."
"Huh... That sucks then..."
"I do have some news that you might appreciate though, Lami is wandering back out again." Law offered and Sanji grinned at that.
"That's good, I'm glad Lami-chan is out! How is she?"
"She seemed well, she looked well fed and watered when she visited me this morning though she did mention she hadn't had a bath in a while."
"It could have been much worse, I'm glad she didn't suffer through that." Sanji would have attempted to get up and kick a certain blonde's ass if he had harmed her-
As soon as he got over this shitty dizziness.
Kid scowled as his door opened, that moron scowling at him as he entered, the pup quickly approached though and leaned over to speak in his ear.
"It seems all the Champions are being assigned a servant each just in case another incident happens like last night's. It means only one person handles your food, water, that kind of thing."
"And I guess Doflamingo's picked who mine is?" Kid murmured back, frowning.
"Apparently not but this is just too much of a coincidence." Shachi crossed his arms, frowning more softly.
"What is?"
"Your servant is Lami. Bepo is off to inform Captain but I thought I better tell you quickly, something's off. She's only just been released last night."
"That is weird." Kid frowned. "Is she up to something?"
"Keep an eye on her just in case. I have a bad feeling that our 'King' has set something up. Why would he let one of his main control's over Captain get so close to you? He despises you." Kid watched Shachi back away, his face twisting back into a glare. "You better win tomorrow's match you son of a bitch, you're starting to make a mockery of Captain."
The assassin scowled at that but hid a smirk, hearing the footsteps approaching the room. Huh, so the kid wasn't that bad after all...
Still a brat though.
"I'm not gonna lose so shut it you little rat."
"Excuse me?" A timid voice called out, a vaguely familiar brunette blinking at them, holding a tray of food. "May I come in Master?"
Kid felt his face twist into a disgusted look. "Just call me Kid or Eustass."
"Yeah, don't respect him Lami. He's a moron!" Shachi offered cheerfully.
"Little shit." Kid snarled.
"Well Lami sorry to leave you with this brute but I might start losing brains cells just by hearing him talk any longer." The shit began to slip out of the room, grinning brightly as he closed the doors behind him.
The girl sat the tray down in front of him before stepping away, frowning more softly to herself while he lounged back, watching her from the corner of his eye. She met his eyes though which he was surprised at, the familiar pair, with somehow less emotion, seemed to judge him.
He waited for her to speak as he picked up the sandwich and began nibbling at it.
"You love my brother, don't you?" The brunette suddenly asked, causing him to pause.
"Yeah, I do." Kid couldn't help but snort though, Law was still trying to push away their 'mushy' feelings though. "He doesn't want to admit it though."
"That he loves you too?"
Kid grinned, feeling happy at that. "So he said it to you huh?"
"No, but I know my brother."
He saw Lami try to strain against a smile but was defeated, the fond expression though soon turned into sadness.
"What has Law told you about himself? His past?"
Kid couldn't help but frown at that. He didn't really know much to be honest, then again though did Law know much about him?
Then again, the quack-doctor probably did all his research before picking him out.
"Not much actually."
"Then I think you need to know more." Lami had a serious gaze in her eyes. "I think you really need to know if it's worth trying to continue this 'game' once you know everything about my brother."
.:End of Chapter:.
Here's an extra chapter because I did it! I passed :D Yey! Theory Test is done! :3
SEllen23, I know exactly how you feel, I do it all the time xD And there was a lot of things happening last chapter, and for mostly the background characters too :P Yep, unfortunately Brook died because Teach was avoiding all the keys to Brook's restraints and this story is a bit dark :/ xD And it was difficult to write Luffy like that, I hope I did it okay ^^; And yeah even Kid was surprised about getting turned on during a fight like that, he really needs to chill :P And we'll see what Lami does but considering she's been a slave to Doflamingo since she was little it's gonna be a tricky situation. And I couldn't resist adding some Zosan xD But yeah, Doflamingo and Blackbeard are the worst, and Law's Uncle (still no name, he doesn't deserve one :P)
xXMinShadowCatXx, Thanks, and yeah I ended up with a mix bag in front of me and munched that during my testing ._. And yep, death's creeping around now, we're heading further down the storyline of the first book so this will be interesting (and dark, sorry fluff lovers D: It's Doflamingo's fault, it just is...) And yeah with Lami it will probably be hard for her since she's had her Master bossing her around since she was little. Love how Luffy's more concerned about Sabo than Dragon xD It's gonna be interesting to see what happens with Sabo's brother! But it really is hard to do good shocked faces right? xD o.0 ._.
